USMA list: I may have missed this change-over when it first happened, but I just noticed today that the Oral-B dental floss that I bought is now labeled with meters as the primary unit and the US Customary length in parentheses afterwards.
I know that Glide dental floss (now also sporting the Crest brand) was the first brand of dental floss to put metric in first position, but it seems like this trend is spreading. Once we are able to amend the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (FPLA) to allow metric-only labels here in the States in place of dual-unit labels (which I think will happen once Obama gets elected along with increased Democratic majorities in Congress), I suspect metric-only labeling will spread like wildfire because of the way it simplifies manufacturing and inventories for US companies. This might also give the UKMA and other supporters more ammunition to convince UK companies and retail stores to drop "supplementary indications" altogether even if they are allowed to keep them (assuming the EU directive on units of measure is amended as proposed last year to allow them to continue to be used indefinitely). Ezra
